88 NATURE'S REALM. 
being apparently aware that moisture would 
injure her progeny.” 
Both writers have certainly erred, at least so 
far as this locality is concerned, and I fear they 
write, like many do, without personal observa- 
tion, for I find the branches die from the sting, 
and, developing at the proper time, the young 
drop to the ground. 


they drop to the ground, in appearance, shape 
and color of the parents when first coming to 
the air, and burrow their way down from two 
to twelve feet, living upon the roots of trees 
and weeds until their allotted time to arise trom 
the ground. 
When young, halt a century ago, I did not 
hesitate to catch them in my hands, and never 






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Fic, 9. 
About two weeks after the eggs had been de- 
posited I cut off some branches and found, after 
laying them open (Fig. 9), the larve in layers 
of eight to fifteen each, one-twelfth of an inch 
in length and one-sixteenth in diameter, lap- 
ping over each other something like a length 
of bricks stood onend andtoppled. They were 
pearly white and the shape ofacigar. Soon 
heard of any one being stung. Strange to say, 
of late years everybody is afraid, there being 
well attested cases resulting fatally. May not 
these results arise from the female, which at 
the moment of striking deposits her eggs in the 
human flesh. I have, I believe, a sure cure, 
which I have practically tried, and will give it 
in a separate article. 
